On Tuesday he alleged that he was taunted after being tackled and pinned to the ground by at least four LAPD officers.

On medication for a broken nose and cheekbone, an emotional Ronald Weekley Jr. says he was punched four times during the incident, which occurred on Saturday near Sunset Boulevard and Sixth Street in Venice. Cellphone video of the incident shows one of the officers landing a single punch on Weekley’s face.

“The next thing I remember is being in the back of the car asking why me, why did I get stopped?” Weekely said during a news conference Tuesday. “The officer said because I was a ‘dumb-a’ and that I didn’t stop at the stop sign.”

Weekley’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, referenced the proliferation of cameras among the public as key in reporting these kinds of incidents.

“How many times did this happen when there are no cellphone recordings of it?” said Crump, who also represents the family of Travyon Martin, the 17-year-old killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. The volunteer, George Zimmerman, has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge, claiming self defense. The case sparked nationwide outrage over alleged racial profiling and Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground Law.”

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Look what happened to the teen in Houston. They stomped him in his head multiple times, but as with Rodney King, an all white jury let them walk. Sheeet, this is LA, so you know they going to have a white jury. Honestly, I don’t even see charges coming unless there is a social media campaign similar to the one that got behind Trayvon Martin.

BTW, y’all know that white people now have an all out internet smear campaign to depict blacks as being violent towards whites? Every incident of black on white violence is blown out of proportion with whitey conveniently claiming that it is in revenge for Trayvon Martin.
Check Mr. Google if you don’t believe me.

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